[R-390] Increase in spam

[Transmaster]

Well I don't get anything I would call spam on My G-mail account I
have had exactly two notes that where categorised as spam but they
where from notifications I had set up for software updates.  I have
had my account for several years now and I think it is the best mail
client I have yet used.  You have to be invited to get an account if
any of you want an invite let me know.

                                           Ken de W7ITC

On 10/25/06, Tom Norris <r390a at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Francesco Ledda wrote:
>
> > Same problem here.........  very tired of it!
>
>
> Before you read this, before you do anything else, google your email
> address.  If you have multiple addresses, google them all.  I dare
> you.  If you want to use an example, use mine from my defunct ISP
> "badger at telalink.net"  Then rethink a bit about the virus issue.
>
> In general --
>
> A lot of it depends on archiving methods, and *much* of it depends on
> the ISP.  I was getting spam the day I set up my account BEFORE I
> sent an email.  I've gotten "shotgun" spam to several of the domains
> that I administer, that sort of spam just goes for random names
> within the domain.  A lot of spam harvesters are getting smarter even
> if you "disguise" your email address within a message - such as
> "myself at my.domain hates stupid spam.com" where your real address
> may have been "myself at my.domain.com"  I don't cloak my email address
> on my military equipment list, and spam harvesters worldwide want to
> sell me all sorts of things that I'll not mention here, and I've won
> international lotteries and nigerian bankers have wanted to entrust
> me with billions. My net worth should be more than Bill Gates by now...
>
> But....
>
> Don't have outlook automatically open anything or use Java.  Or
> better yet, use some mailer other than outlook, anything.  Mozilla
> has a good email program builtin, their's Eudora that I've used for
> over a decade and until this simpler Mac Mail won  me over.  There's
> Agent, Pegasus, any number of mail programs.  Microsoft isn't
> inherently *bad*, but it has to be configured not to be that way.
> Me, I tried Mac a few years ago, and now like it's OS too.  And if
> set up properly no major leaks or that I've been able to break into w/
> i my own network at home.
>
>
> But you already know this, and I'm preaching to the choir...
>
> Seriously, google my old address, google my call, or my old call,
> ka4rkt.  Chances are that if you find mine, you'll find the email of
> the person I was talking to.  And none of this counts the folks that
> put their email and web site address in their sig line. Any of that
> info is ripe picking for harvesting software to grab and stick in a
> database.  This isn't new, there's just more of it.  I think I got my
> first piece of personal spam in 1990 or something.
>
> Oh well, I'm babbling, it's my evening meds... but I had to chime in.
>
> 73
>
> Tom NU4G
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________
> R-390 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/r-390
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/faq.htm
> Post: mailto:R-390 at mailman.qth.net
> Unsubscribe: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/options/r-390
>


-- 
Kenneth A. Crips, W7ITC Home of the Chew Crew,  Red Headed
Irish Terrier House Ninjas, Beezie, Chic', and Cowboy
10th degree black belts in Mouch Fue, Bed Fue, and
Con Artist Fue.